City coming for 'symbols of hate' | Big move on Staten Island park | Israel event back on at Queens Museum

The city plans to conduct a 90-day review of "all symbols of hate on city property," Mayor Bill de Blasio said yesterday. It's not clear what criteria officials would use to determine which markers are hateful, but a panel of experts and community leaders will lead the review. Their recommendations will lead to the removal of such symbols. [New York Post]

Plus: Gov. Andrew Cuomo called on the Army to remove the names of two Confederate generals from streets on a Brooklyn military base. [The New York Times]

Also: Cuomo also ordered busts of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson removed from the City University of New York’s Hall for Great Americans in the Bronx. [New York Post]

Construction contract for major Staten Island park

The city has awarded Lomma Construction a $22.9 million contract to build the initial, 21-acre phase of North Park in the former Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island. The park, which will be the first section of Fresh Kills Park to be open to the public year-round, is expected to include a birdwatching observation tower and a 7-acre seed farm. [DNAinfo]

Israel event back on at Queens Museum

After sharp criticism from local officials, the Queens Museum has reversed its decision to cancel a scheduled re-enactment of the United Nations vote in 1947 establishing the State of Israel. The vote took place in the museum's main gallery. The institution had canceled its coordination with Israel’s U.S. ambassador because of what a report called feedback from "Palestinian friends." [Politico New York]

Top economic adviser 'disgusted' by Trump's equivocation

Gary Cohn, director of President Donald Trump's National Economic Council and former president of Goldman Sachs, is said to be "disgusted" and "deeply upset" by Trump’s equivocation this week in condemning demonstrations by neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Va. Cohn is one of several Jewish advisers who have not publicly criticized Trump over the remarks. [The New York Times]

Plus: Cohn is also one of the New York-based business leaders who continue to support Trump as other top executives bail. [Crain’s New York Business]

Midtown hotel settles time-share scam

The operators of the Manhattan Club hotel in Midtown have settled for $6.5 million state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's investigation into a time-share scam. The hotel sold bogus time-shares to thousands of customers, then rented their supposed rooms to the general public. The settlement will go to customers. [Daily News]

Goldman faces federal discrimination lawsuit

Rebecca Allen, an African-American banker in Goldman Sachs' personal wealth management unit since 2012, sued the bank in Manhattan federal court yesterday, claiming it has steered top clients to white colleagues and denied her promotions because of her race. Goldman says Allen's claims are baseless. [The New York Times]

Supportive housing under construction in Bed-Stuy

NYC Health + Hospitals, the city's public health care system, and social services agency Comunilife yesterday began work on a $28 million, six-story supportive-housing building on the system's Woodhull Medical Center campus in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Fifty-four of the 89 units will be set aside for discharged behavioral health patients who lack permanent housing. [Crain’s Health Pulse]

Plus: The Trump administration plans to roll back a requirement that employee health benefits include contraception. [The Wall Street Journal]

Times editor says he didn't mean to blame Palin for shooting

James Bennet, The New York Times' editorial page editor, testified in Manhattan federal court yesterday that he "did not intend" in a June editorial to blame Sarah Palin's political action committee for a 2011 shooting that included the wounding of a congresswoman. A judge is considering whether to allow a defamation lawsuit brought by Palin against the Times to move forward. [Daily News]

Police watchdog Milton Mollen dies

Milton Mollen, a judge and deputy mayor who led a panel in the 1990s that investigated police corruption, died this week at age 97. In 1992, Mayor David Dinkins empowered Mollen to look into bribery and other malfeasance in the New York Police Department. The so-called Mollen Commission issued reform recommendations in 1994. [WNYC]

City gets millions from Wendy's fortune to boost adoptions

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, a Columbus, Ohio-based charity established by the founder of Wendy's, is donating $7.5 million to the city to increase to 43 from two the number of recruiters who find permanent homes for older foster children and those with special needs. New York will contribute $3.8 million to the initiative. [The Wall Street Journal]

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